Shade-holder



(No Model.) 2 Shets eeeeee 1. H. J. BELL.

SHADE HOLDER.

No. 408070. Patented July 30, 1889.

(N0 MOdel.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

H. J. BELL'.

SHADE HOLDER.

No. 408.070. Patented Ju1y 80, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HAROLD J. BELL, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NElV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE IVELSBACH INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT COMPANY, OF NElV JERSEY.

SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,070, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed October 2, 1888. Serial No. 286,999- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HAROLD J. BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloucester City, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel, economical, and efficient shade-holder IO for the chimneys of Argand and other burners for gas or oil,'comprising a single continuous piece of wire having spring-fingers of peculiar construction, whereby it is adapted to chimneys of difierent diameters without the adjustment of slides or similar devices,

and will be supported solely by its springclamping action.

The object of my invention I accomplish by a single piece of wire zigzagged to form substantially U-shaped fingers, and otherwise constructed, as hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which 2 5 Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wire shadeholder applied to a chimney such as is used on Argand or other burners; Fig. 2, a top view of the shade-holder; Fig. 3, a side elevation of a shade-holder applied to a chimney and 0 made as in Figs. 1 and 2, but turned inside out to vary its configuration and support the shade at the base of the holder;. Fig. 4, a perspective view showing a shade applied to the holder represented in Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a side ele- 3 5 vation showing a modified form of wire shadeholder applied to a chimney; Fig. (i, a top view of the holder shown in Fig. 5.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now de- 0 scribe the same in detail, referring first to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, where it will 7 be seen that the shade-holder is composed of a single continuous piece of elastic or spring wire,which, to form the holder, I bend at proper 4 5 intervals into zigzag shape, thereby constituting duplex fingers 1, in the form or substanstantially in the form of the letter U, after which the zigzagged wire is brought into circular form and its ends united in any suitable 5o manner, as by brazing or soldering or otherwise. The U shaped fingers are joined by the bends 3, formed by zigzagging the wire, and the duplex fingers have alternately the appearance of an inverted letter U whereby the bends 3 are alternatelyat the upper and lower 5 5 portions of the wire holder. The pairs of fingers are all bowed outwardly at or near the middle of the length of the fingers, to form a circle of separated ledges or rests 4, by which the ordinary shade 5such as shown in Fig. 4-is supported at intervals all around the holder. The upper and lower joining-bends 3 of the zigzagged wire yieldingly bear against the usual chimney 6 of an Argand or other burner, and thus the holder is retained in its prop er position by the spring-clamping action of the fingers, and as the latter are elastic they will move radially to adapt themselves to chimneys of varying diameter. The radial outward movement of the inverted-U-shaped 7o fingers at the upper or top bends tends to force the other U shaped fingers inward at the lower or bottom bends, in consequence of which the upper and lower bends will uniformly grip the chimney; but being all very flexible there 7 5 is no danger of breakage.

The zigzagged wire holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2 can be reversed, or rather turned inside out, to assume the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4. \Vhen this is done, the duplex fingers will have the appearance of being bowed inwardly, the upper portions of the inverted- U shaped fingers will press against the chimney, and the lower portions of the other duplex fingers will radiate outwardly to support the shade, as shown in Fig. 4.

In the modification shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the duplex fingers are not centrally bowed; but those duplex fingers which alternate with the inverted-U-shaped fingers are bent out- 0 wardly at the lower joining-bends 3, to form ledges or rests 7 to sustain the shade.

The zigzagging of the wire, bringing it to circular shape, and the bowing or bending of the duplex fingers to form the circle of shade- 5 rests constitute a very simple, economical, and desirable shade-holder for the chimneys of Argand and other gas or oil burners.

hat I claim is continuous piece of zigzagged wire united at its ends and comprising a series of flexible 1. A reversible shade-holder composed of a fingers joined by bends at top and bottom and cle of ledges inward or outward, substantially 1o bowed in radial lines to form a series of shadeas described.

supporting ledges, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig- 2. A reversible shade-holder composed of nature in presence of two witnesses. J OIZ 1 n I I 0- 1 J 5 71 a ed u ne a d comprisin a series of H J. BELL flexible duplex and U-shaped fingers bowed between the upper and lower bends of the Witnesses:

wire to form a circle of ledges at, and capable HARRY E. BANCROFT, of being turned inside out to project said. cir- WV. E. BARROWS. 

